[B-Greek] XWRIS TELOYS vs. META TELOYS and EXEI TELOS

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 16 12:25:00 EDT 2008


On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:20 AM, Randall Buth wrote:

> Goodwin says that the aorist indicative is without limitation of
> "completion, continuance, repetition, etc., which belong to the other
> past tenses."
>
> Is it really true that the Greek aorist has no sense of COMPLETION?

Cooper appears to disagree:

Attic Greek Syntax v1. 53:5.0
"The aorist is an abstract tense which does not properly have any  
reference to situation in time or duration in time. It simply asserts  
that an action is attained. The indicative usually refers to past time  
simply because the idea of attainment draws the action into that  
sphere."

RE: "endpoint" I am not sure if Cooper's "attainment" includes your  
notion of and endpoint. I didn't find that question explicitly  
addressed.



Elizabeth Kline







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